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Unanswered: Help needed with complex query

Hi,

I have a sql table, over 30 milion recs, with the following fields:
(id1 int, id2 int, itemsCollection varchar(100), myText TEXT)
I have also sql table, with the following fields: (item varchar(10), rate int)

you can sort the results of a join (and in your case the join will be monstrously inefficient, because of the comma-separated list of ids) by descending order of rate, but you can not "take a side trip" and sort all the a/b rows up under the a/b row with the largest rate